The most powerful decision-making part of the audience is women. Boys have a lot of impact on the industry, but it's often women who impact what stories get made.
Nina JacobsonNobody roots for people who presume success. You have to earn success, and success is earned by making a movie that audiences like and want to see more of.
Nina Jacobson[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.
Nina JacobsonI am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.
Nina JacobsonWe both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of the actors playing the roles. They should be playing the age that they are in the [Hunger Games] books. It would let people off the hook, if you said, "Well, instead of 12 to 18, why don't you make them 18 to 25 or 16 to 21?" If you don't stay true to the horror of the fact that they are 12 to 18, you're not doing justice to the book.
Nina Jacobson